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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7984604 | Manufacturing method and apparatus for producing digital yarns using hybrid metal for high speed communication and digital yarns thereof A manufacturing method and apparatus for producing digital yarns using hybrid metal for high speed communication, which can be connected to a network to exchange information in real time in the ubiquitous era, and digital yarns made using the method thereof. The man... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7338709 | Security yarn and production method therefor According to the present invention, there is provided a security thread whose existence is not clarified, which is prevented beforehand from being removed, which can be attached even to a form of a commodity heretofore regarded as difficult, and whose use purpose ra... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7322220 | Apparatus for manufacturing trapezoidal wire using two-set shaping rollers An apparatus for manufacturing a trapezoidal wire using two-set shaping rollers has a body rotating about a central axis at a predetermined speed, a plurality of first shaping roller sets installed along an outer circumference of the body, each first shaping roller ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7197809 | Method for fabricating an helical stranded cable, particularly for mechanical motion transmission, and cable produced by that method A method for fabricating a stranded cable particularly for mechanical motion transmission, which cable is composed of multiple strands or wires, helically wound around a common longitudinal axis, including the steps of: a—winding... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7065948 | Web twister removal process An apparatus for detecting and eliminating a twister in a running web of flexible material. The apparatus includes a catch section for twisters, a rotor, a scanner arrangement for detection of a twister that has entered a catch section and a control unit , which, up... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7047616 | Method of manufacturing and laying a plurality of elongate elements to the outside of a core element In a method of manufacturing and laying a plurality of elongate elements into an umbilical comprising a core element, a plurality of conduits of metal and if necessary at least one cable situated outside the core element, which core element is advanced along a feed ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7000374 | Tire for a vehicle wheel including at least one breaker layer A vehicle wheel tire includes a carcass, a tread, a pair of side walls ending with beads for mounting the tire on a rim, a belt structure, and at least one breaker layer. The belt structure includes first, second, and third belts strips. The first and second belt st... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6948304 | Compact universal concentric strander with take-off sheaves mounted on strander shaft A concentric strander has an elongate concentric shaft that defines a shaft axis and supports for rotatably supporting the concentric shaft. A number of wire bobbins are spaced at substantially equal intervals along the shaft to form spaces between the bobbins. Each... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6904744 | Steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles Steel cord includes a first group and a second group. The second group is helically twisted around the first group with a cord twisting step. The first group includes a first number of first steel filaments. The first number ranges between three and eight. The secon... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6829880 | Tire comprising metal cord A tire for a vehicle wheel, includes a torus-shaped carcass, a tread located on a periphery of the carcass, and a pair of axially-facing side walls ending with beads reinforced with bead wires and respective bead-filling elements for mounting the tire on a correspon... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6102095 | Corrosion resistant steel cords and pneumatic tires reinforced with same A corrosion resistant steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles, particularly a belt and/or carcass of a pneumatic tire, has a residual compressive stress inside the twisting helix of each steel filament such that a ratio R1 /R0 is ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6076344 | Process for producing a steel cord Process for producing a steel cord for pneumatic tires comprising a bunch of wires, the core of which consists of wire filaments 10 arranged bunched juxtaposed in parallel. Preferably at least three wire filaments 10, 20 are provided, at least two wire fi... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6051313 | Hybrid yarn for the fabrication of fibre preforms of composite parts, and method for its preparation A yarn is formed from discontinuous parallel fibers which are not twisted d which are held together by a covering yarn of sacrificial material wound around the fibers. The fibers comprise an intimate mixture of fibers of at least two different natures sel... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6016647 | Manufacturing method and apparatus of steel cord for rubber product reinforcement A method for using a bunching type twisting machine to manufacture a steel cord made up of one core filament having a continuous wavy form and five to eight sheath filaments not having a wavy form disposed around the core filament, the cross-sectional sha... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5878564 | Open steel cord structure A steel cord (114) comprises strength elements (100, 132) and having a length, a longitudinal central axis (112) and a cord pitch. At least one of the elements (100) has a projection on a plane YZ perpendicular to the longitudinal central axis (112). This... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5822973 | Corrosion resistant steel filament A steel cord intended for use to reinforce rubber products is produced by drawing, into a steel filament of 0.10 to 0.40 mm in diameter and more than 3,000 N/mm2 in strength, a wire rod having a carbon content of more than 0.70% by weight, and ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5806296 | Corrosion resistant spiral steel filament and steel cord made therefrom A steel cord intended for use to reinforce rubber products is produced by drawing, into a steel filament of 0.10 to 0.40 mm in diameter and more than 3,000 N/mm2 in strength, a wire rod having a carbon content of more than 0.70% by weight, and ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5765357 | Method for producing a compacted wire strand substantially triangular in shape for making wire rope A method for producing a compacted wire strand substantially triangular in shape for making wire rope includes the steps of (i) unwinding a central group of wires from a bobbin, the central group being substantially triangular, (ii) winding up a first lay... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5743078 | M+n steel cord with equal PLE per filament A steel cord (30) consists of a first group and a second group. The first group comprises two or more plastically deformed outer steel filaments (10) twisted around each other with a first twist pitch and the second group comprises one or more plastically... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5651246 | Method of production of steel cord for reinforcing products having a flat section A method for producing a steel cord from 3 to 6 steel filaments on which a coating is applied to retain the adhesion to a rubber, the steel cord being destined for use to reinforce a rubber product having a flat section, comprising the following steps of ... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5640766 | Method and apparatus for producing a compressed stranded wire for a press-connecting terminal The present invention provides a wire for a press-connecting terminal which has a high flexibility, and achieves a high reliability for a connection portion at the time of press-connection, and also provides a method of producing a conductor of such a wir... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5581990 | Twisting steel cord with wavy filament A steel cord comprises steel filaments twisted around each other in a first direction about at least one steel core filament having a wave form. The twisted filaments are individually subjected to a rotation about their own axes. This steel cord is formed... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5533327 | Preforming head for making ropes and cable armor A preforming head for making ropes and cable armor including an axle with a front preforming disk fixedly mounted thereon. A middle preforming disk and a rear preforming disk are displaceably mounted on the axle. The middle disk has a diameter larger than... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5496969 | Concentric compressed unilay stranded conductors Concentric Compressed Unilay Stranded Conductors are formed of certain combinations of compressed wires, such as 1+7+12, 1+6+11 or 1+7+12+17, which have nominally equal diameters. The combinations of conductors or wires are selected so that the number of ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5487262 | Method and device for overtwisting and undertwisting a steel cord A steel cord, having steel filaments twisted so as to have a final twist pitch, is manufactured by plastically deforming the steel filaments by overtwisting the steel cord to a twist pitch which is smaller than the final twist pitch, untwisting the steel ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5487261 | Method and apparatus for applying flat ribbons about a cylindrical core Flat filaments or ribbons are deflected by a system of sheaves to converge the filaments to closing stations proximate to points at which the filaments are tangentially applied to helical surfaces of a central cylindrical core member. Successive sets of f... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5375404 | Wide rope with reduced internal contact stresses A stranded product is formed from a central wire and a plurality of wires helically wound around the central wire, wherein each of the wires helically wound around the central wire has a small longitudinal groove which increases the area of contact betwee... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5331796 | Method and apparatus for applying stacked optical fiber ribbons about a cylindrical core of a fiber optic cable Fiber optic filaments or ribbons are deflected by a system of sheaves to converge at final filament deflection sheaves which direct the filaments along the longitudinal direction of an assembly table. Successive sets of filament deflection sheaves stack t... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5260516 | Concentric compressed unilay stranded conductors Concentric Compressed Unilay Stranded Conductors are formed of certain combinations of compressed wires, such as 1+7+12, 1+6+11 or 1+7+12+17, which have nominally equal diameters. The combinations of conductors or wires are selected so that the number of ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5247729 | Wreath-making machine An apparatus for manufacturing a wreath from a plurality of elongated objects, such as boughs by securing the boughs to a frame with a securing member such as a wire.... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5226271 | Apparatus for reverse stranding and a method in connection with stranding and reverse stranding A reverse stranding apparatus for the reverse stranding of conductors to produce cables or the like and to a method in connection with stranding and reverse stranding. The conductors are drawn from a distributor into a nozzle or equivalent through periphe... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5198307 | Steel strip and method of making A steel strip (1) comprises two to seven round steel filaments (2) lying in parallel adjacent to one another so as to form a single plane of core filaments and one or more filaments (4) which are wrapped around the core filaments in one single wrapping di... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5074140 | Method and method for high speed cable shaping and stranding A method and an apparatus for the high speed shaping of wires to be used to make a compact stranded cable are disclosed. A plurality of roll pairs for shaping the cross section of a wire in a peripheral groove are mounted to the layhead of a strander appa... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4984869 | Optical fibre cable and method of making same A cable comprises strength members twisted along helicoidal lines of mutual contact, an outer coating covering the strength members and providing helicoidal reception spaces, each of which is delimited by the outer coating, two adjacent strength members a... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4974408 | Alternate reverse twisting method and apparatus An alternate reverse or so-called SZ-twisting method and apparatus and cable product produced by alternate reverse twisting method and/or apparatus. Elements (2 ) which are to be alternately reversely twisted may be wires, leads, optical fibers, their gro... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4971419 | Optical fiber cable and methods of making An optical fiber cable (20) includes a core (21) comprising a units a unit (22). The unit is formed by a plurality of optical fibers (24-24) which are assembled together without intended standing. The unit is enclosed in a tube (34) which provides a prede... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4939896 | Method and apparatus for S-Z stranding A method and apparatus for increasing the line speed of an S-Z strander by applying a tensile force to the elongated accumulator of the strander, between 124 pounds and less than the elastic limit of the material from which the elongated accumulator is ma... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4856266 | Method of producing optical fiber cable A plurality of grooves are formed in an outer surface of a spacer. The grooves are formed continuously in the longitudinal direction by a die which surrounds the circumference of the spacer. The grooves extend, in the form of parallel periodically reversi... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4833871 | Apparatus for inserting optical fibers into a spacer having spiral grooves An apparatus and method for inserting optical fibers into a spacer having spiral grooves to produce a spacer type optical fiber cable wherein a torsional force detecting device is formed integrally with the optical fiber gathering device for inserting opt... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4825629 | Device for inserting optical fibers into helical grooves of a ring in a cabling line In an optical fiber cabling line where a grooved ring is axially drawn at a translational speed, there is provided a device designed to insert optical fibers in helical grooves of the ring. The fibers are unwound, are drawn through a rotating plate and co... | 05/02/1989 |
